 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1822 - 840 pages
...architect, who finished the temple of Diana at Ephesus, after it had been burnt by Erostratus. DINÔCRATES, an architect of Macedonia, who proposed to Alexander...statue, holding a city in one hand, and in the other a basin, into which all the waters of the mountain should empty themselves. This project Alexander... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1822 - 818 pages
...of Archidamus. Paul 3, c. 10. DINOCHARES, an architect, who finished the temple of Diana at Ephesus, after it had been burnt by Erostratus. DINOCRATES,...proposed to Alexander to cut mount Athos in the form of a ttatue, holding a city in one hand, and in the other a basin, into which all the waters of the mountain... | |
 | William Stevenson, Robert Kerr - Commerce - 1824 - 706 pages
...in a single spot the means of defence and facility of access.. Denocrates, a Macedonian architect, who proposed to Alexander to cut Mount Athos in the...the waters of the mountain should empty themselves, was employed by that monarch to build and beautify Alexandria. Its site was on a deep and secure bay,... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Explorers - 1824 - 674 pages
...united in a single spot the means of defence and facility of access. Denocrates, a Macedonian architect, who proposed to Alexander to cut Mount Athos in the...the waters of the mountain should empty themselves, was employed by that monarch to build and beautify Alexandria. Its site was on a deep and secure bay,... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Voyages and travels - 1824 - 686 pages
...in a single spot" the means of defence and facility of access. Denocrates, a Macedonian architect, who proposed to Alexander to cut Mount Athos in the form of a statue holding :i city in one hand, and in the other a bason, into which all ilie waters of the mountain should empty... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1825 - 910 pages
...the thermal waters at the distance of a quarter of a league from it. It is now Digne.} DINOCRXTF.S, an architect of Macedonia, who proposed to Alexander to cut mount Athos [into the form of a man having in his left hand the walls of a great city, and all the rivers of the... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1827 - 938 pages
...from the thermal waters at the distance of a quarter of a league from it. It unon Dignf."\ DINOCKATES, an architect of Macedonia, [who proposed to Alexander to cut mount Athos into the form of a man having in his '• Ci hand the walls of a great city, and all the rivers of... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1840 - 706 pages
...Arsinoe all of magnet or this loadstone, to the end, that within that temple the statue of the said * Dinocrates, an architect of Macedonia, who proposed to Alexander to cut Mount Athos la the ionB of a statue, holding a city in one hand, and in the other a basin, into which all the waters... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1832 - 444 pages
...architect, who finished the temple of Diana at Ephesus, after it had heen hurnt hy Erostratus. DtNoUEATEs, an architect of Macedonia, who proposed to Alexander...statue, holding a city in one hand, and in the other a hason, into which all the waters of the mountain should empty themselves. A general of Agathocles.... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Anecdotes - 1836 - 340 pages
...club in his right hand. Dinocrates is the architect who proposed to Alexander to cut Mount Athos into the form of a statue, holding a city in one hand and...the waters of the mountain should empty themselves. In his masquerade equipment, with his lion's skin, club, &c. we may suppose he meant to represent Hercules.... | |
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Dlnöcrätes, an architect of Macedonia, who proposed to Alexander to cut mount Athos in the form of a statue, holding a city in one hand, and in the other a basin, into which all the waters of the mountain should empty themselves. This project Alexander... 
